30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

Still silhouettes of horses gradually emerge from the mists. The arid undergrowth is burned by the fire. The wind comes to break the summer away. A helicopter brings sea water to put out the fire at the gates of the city. Meanwhile, the camera follows, from a distance, as if not to intrude too much into his life, the black shepherd who in an old farmhouse prays to his God, plows the parched earth before the arrival of the storm, and listens to the voice announcing the birth of a daughter who he cannot see. Long shots, insistent shots, slow camera movements and a rich sound commentary, without a musical note and few distant voices, immerse us with poetic force in the landscape of a wounded island, Sicily.

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  Federico Cammarata

  Federico Cammarata was born in Livorno in 1993. He graduated from the Experimental Center of Cinematography (Palermo in )documentary film directing. His film Salvo was screened at the 2020 edition of Doclisboa (Lisbon), Festival dei Popoli (Florence) and numerous other national and international festivals. His latest film, Late August, won the award for best film at Doclisboa 2021 (Green Years section) and the CG Entertainment distribution award at the Festival dei Popoli 2021.

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  Filippo Foscarini

  Filippo Foscarini (1990), after graduating with a thesis in comparative literature from the Ca 'Foscari University (Venice), he earned a degree in documentary film direction from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografa (Palermo). With Marta Violante he made the archival short film Africa Bianca (2020), inspired by his grandfather's notebook, presented at the Turin Film Festival and screened in various national and international festivals.